Bedbugs resolved

NEW BEDFORD — The bugs are gone on Ellen Street, where a couple was fighting with the city over a bedbug infestation.

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By NATALIE SHERMAN

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By NATALIE SHERMAN

Posted Dec. 28, 2012 at 12:01 AM

By NATALIE SHERMAN
Posted Dec. 28, 2012 at 12:01 AM

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NEW BEDFORD — The bugs are gone on Ellen Street, where a couple was fighting with the city over a bedbug infestation.

"It's all resolved," said Edmond Morgado, who went to landlord Joe Pereira Wednesday with a check in hand for the month's rent he had withheld over concerns about bedbugs.

Morgado said he was satisfied after Michael Tache, president of Mattapoisett-based American K-9 Private Investigators Inc., who trains dogs to sniff out the pests, completed a free investigation last week.

"The whole apartment just absolutely reeks of chemicals so I think in their mind they still think they have something but I assured them it wasn't bedbugs whatever they've got," Tache said.

Wife Carmen Morgado, who had been to the doctor for treatment, said she believed the weeks of chemical spraying her husband conducted had helped. Her bites are healing and she is sleeping better, she said.